diff --git a/extensions/fablabchemnitz/contour_scanner_and_trimmer/contour_scanner_and_trimmer.inx b/extensions/fablabchemnitz/contour_scanner_and_trimmer/contour_scanner_and_trimmer.inx
index 7e3f2f05..d3cd23ea 100644
--- a/extensions/fablabchemnitz/contour_scanner_and_trimmer/contour_scanner_and_trimmer.inx
+++ b/extensions/fablabchemnitz/contour_scanner_and_trimmer/contour_scanner_and_trimmer.inx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
             <label appearance="header">General</label>
             <param name="show_debug" type="bool" gui-text="Show debug infos">false</param>
             <param name="break_apart" type="bool" gui-text="Break apart input" gui-description="Break apart input paths into sub paths. Modifies original paths: converts to absolute paths and might create additional new path elements.">false</param>   
-            <param name="handle_groups" type="bool" gui-text="Handle groups" gui-description="Also looks for paths in groups which are in the current selection. Note: The generated results have a different structure (less granularity due to grouping) than directly selected paths. The colorization for non-intersected paths will be different too.">false</param> 
+            <param name="handle_groups" type="bool" gui-text="Handle groups" gui-description="Also looks for paths in groups which are in the current selection. Note: The generated results have a different structure (less granularity due to grouping and conversion of absolute paths to relative paths) than directly selected paths. The colorization for non-intersected paths will be different too.">false</param> 
             <param name="flattenbezier" type="bool" gui-text="Quantization (flatten bezier curves to polylines)" gui-description="Convert bezier curves to polylines.">true</param>  
             <param name="flatness" type="float" min="0.001" max="99999.000" precision="3" gui-text="Flatness (tolerance)" gui-description="Minimum flatness = 0.001. The smaller the value the more fine segments you will get (quantization). Large values might destroy the line continuity.">0.100</param>
             <param name="decimals" type="int" min="0" max="16" gui-text="Decimals" gui-description="Accuracy for sub split lines / lines trimmed by shapely (default: 3)">3</param>
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
                     <option value="closed_paths">closed:closed paths</option>
                 </param>
                     <param name="draw_trimmed" type="bool" gui-text="Draw trimmed lines">false</param> 
-                    <param name="combine_nonintersects" type="bool" gui-text="Chain + combine non-intersected lines">true</param> 
+                    <param name="combine_nonintersects" type="bool" gui-text="Chain + combine non-intersected lines" gui-description="This will colorize all paths segments which were not intersected ('non-intersected lines'). If the whole path was not intersected at all, it will get another color ('non-intersected paths').">true</param> 
                     <param name="remove_duplicates" type="bool" gui-text="Remove duplicate trim lines">true</param>
                     <param name="reverse_removal_order" type="bool" gui-text="Reverse removal order" gui-description="Reverses the order of removal. Relevant for keeping certain styles of elements">false</param>
                     <param name="bezier_trimming" type="bool" gui-text="Trim original beziers (not working yet)" gui-description="If enabled we try to split the original bezier paths at the intersections points by finding the correct bezier segments and calculating t parameters from trimmed sub split lines. Not working yet. Will just print debug info if debug is enabled.">true</param>
diff --git a/extensions/fablabchemnitz/contour_scanner_and_trimmer/contour_scanner_and_trimmer.py b/extensions/fablabchemnitz/contour_scanner_and_trimmer/contour_scanner_and_trimmer.py
index a812d8ea..4914c17b 100644
--- a/extensions/fablabchemnitz/contour_scanner_and_trimmer/contour_scanner_and_trimmer.py
+++ b/extensions/fablabchemnitz/contour_scanner_and_trimmer/contour_scanner_and_trimmer.py
@@ -75,31 +75,34 @@ intersectedVerb = "-intersected-"
 class ContourScannerAndTrimmer(inkex.EffectExtension):
 
     def breakContours(self, element, breakelements = None):
-        ''' this does the same as "CTRL + SHIFT + K" '''
+        ''' 
+        this does the same as "CTRL + SHIFT + K"
+        This functions honors the fact of absolute or relative paths!
+         '''
         if breakelements == None:
             breakelements = []
         if element.tag == inkex.addNS('path','svg'):
             parent = element.getparent()
             idx = parent.index(element)
-            idSuffix = 0    
-            raw = element.path.to_arrays()
+            idSuffix = 0
+            raw = str(element.path).split()
             subPaths, prev = [], 0
             for i in range(len(raw)): # Breaks compound paths into simple paths
-                if raw[i][0] == 'M' and i != 0:
+                if raw[i][0].upper() == 'M' and i != 0:
                     subPaths.append(raw[prev:i])
                     prev = i
             subPaths.append(raw[prev:])
             for subpath in subPaths:
                 replacedelement = copy.copy(element)
                 oldId = replacedelement.get('id')
-                csp = CubicSuperPath(subpath)
+                csp = CubicSuperPath(Path(" ".join(subpath)))
                 if len(subpath) > 1 and csp[0][0] != csp[0][1]: #avoids pointy paths like M "31.4794 57.6024 Z"
-                    replacedelement.set('d', csp)
+                    replacedelement.set('d', " ".join(subpath))
                     replacedelement.set('id', oldId + str(idSuffix))
                     parent.insert(idx, replacedelement)
                     idSuffix += 1
                     breakelements.append(replacedelement)
-            parent.remove(element)
+            element.delete()
         for child in element.getchildren():
             self.breakContours(child, breakelements)
         return breakelements
diff --git a/extensions/fablabchemnitz/vpypetools/vpypetools.py b/extensions/fablabchemnitz/vpypetools/vpypetools.py
index 022a8e04..2123201a 100644
--- a/extensions/fablabchemnitz/vpypetools/vpypetools.py
+++ b/extensions/fablabchemnitz/vpypetools/vpypetools.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Extension for InkScape 1.X
 Author: Mario Voigt / FabLab Chemnitz
 Mail: mario.voigt@stadtfabrikanten.org
 Date: 02.04.2021
-Last patch: 24.04.2021
+Last patch: 05.06.2021
 License: GNU GPL v3
 
 This piece of spaghetti-code, called "vpypetools", is a wrapper to pass (pipe) line elements from InkScape selection (or complete canvas) to vpype. 
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ class vpypetools (inkex.EffectExtension):
             if self.options.strokes_to_paths is True:     
                 for line in element.iter("{http://www.w3.org/2000/svg}line"):
                     newLine = PathElement()
-                    newLine.path = Path("M {},{}L {},{}".format(line.attrib['x1'], line.attrib['y1'], line.attrib['x2'], line.attrib['y2']))
+                    newLine.path = Path("M {},{} L {},{}".format(line.attrib['x1'], line.attrib['y1'], line.attrib['x2'], line.attrib['y2']))
                     element.append(newLine)
                     line.delete()